Auditorium Parco della Musica--page 1 (of 5 pages)

Renzo Piano (Renzo Piano Building Workshop)
1994-2002

The fan shaped plan--from a sign at the site

The Parco della Musica is a large multi-function public music complex to the north of Rome--in the area where the 1960 Olympics had been staged. (See, for example, Nervi's Palazzetto dello Sport.) Three large concert halls are structurally separated to insure soundproofing, though joined at the base by a continuous lobby. A fourth concert hall is the open air theater recalling Greco-Roman theaters. The fan shaped layout is formed around the central piazza. The blobs, beetles, scarabs, turtles, insect carapaces, computer mice--all are names given to these structures with thin red Roman brick and weighty dramatic lead roofs.